Prize winners
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2026 winners announcement Yearly celebrations
Celebrating our 2026 Prize winners
Thank you to everybody who took the time to make a nomination this year, and to all of our volunteers on our judging panels. Explore our prize winners to find profiles, see photo galleries, get insights into their work, and read a question and answer session with the prize winner.
Research & Innovation Prize winners
Celebrating exceptional people advancing the chemical sciences across industry and academia.
Horizon Prize winners
Celebrating groups, teams and collaborations making discoveries and innovations that push the boundaries of science.
Inclusion and Diversity Prize winner
Recognising individuals or teams that have improved the accessibility, inclusivity and diversity of the chemical science community.
Volunteer Recognition Prize winners
Celebrating our members who support and inspire others within the community.
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Microporous Membranes Team
For the development of ion-conducting polymers of intrinsic microporosity and applications as next-generation membranes in redox flow batteries for...
2023 Materials Chemistry Horizon Prizes
Molecular Educators
For the creation of innovative chemical education resources that benefit how students, children, and the general public learn organic chemistry.
2021 Horizon Prizes for Education
Molecular Strainers
For the creative advancement of strained intermediates involving cumulated cyclic dienes and trienes.
2024 Organic Chemistry Horizon Prizes
Monash Ammonia Team
For the development of a highly selective electrochemical process for sustainable production of ammonia from nitrogen and renewable energy at close...
2023 Environment, Sustainability and Energy Horizon Prizes
Multidimensional Click Chemistry
For the development of multidimensional click chemistry, a next-generation click-technology that extends bond creation into the three-dimensional w...
2021 Organic Chemistry Horizon Prizes
n-AQUA
For discoveries revealing how the structure and dynamics of water are transformed under nanoscale confinement and at low-dimensional interfaces.
2026 Faraday Horizon Prizes
Natural Product Reports Lectureship winners prior to 2024
Natural Product Reports Emerging Investigator Lectureship 2013 to 2024
2013 Natural Product Reports Emerging Investigator Lectureship
Neslihan Tas
Hacettepe University, Turkey
For her research into the Maillard reaction and the novel approaches to understanding the chemistry of this complex reaction.
2023 Food Group Early Career Medal
Niall Begley
Our Lady and St Patrick's College, Knock
For his enthusiasm and use of innovative, engaging teaching methods in chemistry and encouraging the development of his colleagues
2024 Early Career Prize for Excellence in Secondary and Further Education
Nicholas Kotov
University of Michigan, USA
For innovative studies and applications of complex self-assembling nanosystems, and for excellence in communication.
2024 Centenary Prizes for Chemistry and Communication
Nicky Waller
Centre for Industry Education Collaboration, University of York
For sustained contributions to the professional development of primary teachers in the teaching of science.
2021 Excellence in Primary Education Prize
Nonheme iron-oxo oxidants
For the discovery and characterization of reactive ligands for high-valent iron-oxo oxidants.
2025 Dalton Horizon Prizes
NoseToDiagnose
For a novel approach to early Parkinson’s disease diagnosis and stratification using a simple non-invasive skin swab.
2021 Analytical Science Horizon Prizes
NPL Air Quality Networks Team
For outstanding application of knowledge and teamwork to produce 20 years of robust, high-quality air pollutant data for three of the UK’s air qual...
2024 Technical Excellence Prizes
NSF Center for Molecularly Optimized Networks
For demonstrating the potential and impact of embedded mechanochemical reactivity on the mechanical limits of cross-linked polymer networks.
2024 Materials Chemistry Horizon Prizes
Orbitrap Astral Team
For the development of a mass analyser, enabling faster and more sensitive analysis from single cells to large clinical cohorts.
2025 Analytical Science Horizon Prizes
Paolo Melchiorre
University of Bologna
For the development of asymmetric photocatalytic methodologies based on excited state intermediates.
2021 Organic Chemistry open prize: Pedler Prize
Paolo Samorì
University of Strasbourg
For pioneering work on the use of supramolecular and nano-chemistry to manufacture multifunctional nanomaterials and devices.
2020 RSC/SCF Joint Lectureship in Chemical Sciences
Particle Characterisation Group
For proactively engaging technicians through an inclusive programme at their FORGE 2024 conference.
2025 Inspirational Committee Award
Paul Dyson
EPFL
For major advances in the catalytic transformations of renewable substrates leading to industrial processes and products.
2020 Green Chemistry Award
Yearly celebrations
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13 June 2023
22 November 2022
07 June 2022
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